For the child of God, death is when the earth recedes and heaven opens up.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!

The bane of all that dread the Devil!

His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.

The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around.

Leave no question in anyone's mind as to where you stand.

God helps those who persevere.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Patience and shuffle the cards.

I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. - My Summer in a Garden.

In my Father's house are many mansion: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

We have believed--and we do believe now--that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible.

That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.

I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.

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Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.